Hello dear PERL MONKS!

I am new to PERL, and i tryed to create a programm, which searches all FILES in the same directory as the programm is placed FOR a word that i type in and REPLACES it for NEXT WORD that i also type in ...

EXAMPLE: I hit start, it asks what word shall be replaced? I type in GIF. Which word shall be there in stead o GIF? I type in IMG. I hit ENTER and it shall search the whole directory for the word GIF and replace it with IMG.

My programm, which i made works on the same way, but it has some disadvantages. It does not SEARCH - i have no idea how to make it, i have to write always the name of the file which i want to be edited ... I tryed Tutorials but they did not help ... And the second disadvantage is, that it waork only with the first line of my TEXT FILE .. I also have no idea why ...

Could you please help me solve this two problems? Here is my source:

use warnings;

system"cls";

print "Which TEXT File shall be changhed?\n";


my $datname = <STDIN>;
chomp($datname);
open(READFILE,"<$datname");
my $erssetz = <READFILE>;
close(READFILE);


print "\n";

my $vor = $erssetz;


print "Which word you want to be REPLACED? \n";



my $wort = <STDIN>;
chomp($wort);

print "\n";


print "What word shall be there the REPLACER? \n";


my $ersetz = <STDIN>;
chomp($ersetz);


print "\n";


$erssetz =~ s/$wort/$ersetz/g;

open(WRITEFILE,">Ersetzt_$datname");
print WRITEFILE $erssetz;
close(WRITEFILE);



print "Finished -> saved AS : REPLACED_$datname \n";

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